Operating Room Travel Nurse

Travel Operating Room Nurse

This Operating Room travel nurse job in Asheville, North Carolina, with Advantis Medical is a 13-week Travel Operating Room Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Mission Hospital. This role pays $2,061 per week and follows a Nights shift with a 3x12 schedule.

As the Operating Room registered nurse on this assignment, you'll circulate surgical cases, verify patients, sites, and counts, participate in surgical time-outs, and safeguard sterile technique from setup through handoff to recovery.

Advantis Medical supports travel clinicians with streamlined credentialing to help with fast start dates, free license support and renewals, and Day 1 benefits.

Job Details

• Facility: Mission Hospital
• Location: Asheville, NC 28801
• Contract Length: 13 Weeks
• Shift: Nights (3x12)
• EMR System: Meditech

Responsibilities

• Circulate for surgical procedures and, when trained and assigned, perform the scrub role across assigned service lines
• Advocate for patient safety under anesthesia, verifying required consent and site documentation and participating in surgical time-outs
• Monitor and protect the sterile field, performing and reconciling instrument, sponge, and sharps counts with the perioperative team
• Anticipate surgeon and team needs, managing supplies, equipment, positioning, and specimen handling per facility protocol

Travel Operating Room Requirements:

• 2+ years of recent Operating Room experience.
• Must hold all required certifications and licenses as mandated by North Carolina and national regulatory bodies.

Mission Hospital Asheville, NC

Mission Hospital is the flagship of Mission Health (part of HCA Healthcare) and the tertiary referral hub for western North Carolina. As the region's only ACS-verified Level I Trauma Center, it gives travelers exposure to complex, high-acuity care across emergency, stroke, NICU, surgical, and specialty services.

• 850+ bed regional referral and acute-care center serving western North Carolina, with a broad and complex case mix
• ACS-verified Level I Trauma Center the only Level I trauma center serving western North Carolina; expect a fast-paced ED with steady trauma volume
• Magnet-recognized for nursing excellence (most recently renewed in 2025)
• Western NC's only Comprehensive Stroke Center, with a Level III NICU on site
• Named one of Healthgrades' America's 50 Best Hospitals for 11 consecutive years (20162026)

Benefits

• Day One Benefits, Medical, Dental, Vision & 401(k)
• Relocation and Travel Reimbursement
• Dedicated team to help with state licensing & renewals
• Weekly Direct Deposit
• $1,000 Referral Bonus + $250 Bonus for Your Referral

Licensing in North Carolina

Compact license accepted. North Carolina is a Nurse Licensure Compact state, and our team handles endorsement and renewals for you.

Explore Asheville, NC

Tucked into the southern Blue Ridge, Asheville, NC is the referral center for a wide mountain region. Mission Hospital anchors that care, and travelers here often land contracts in maternity units and operating rooms as the surrounding population funnels in. Smaller facilities nearby carry their own caseloads, and many clinicians choose housing in Hendersonville or Weaverville for a straightforward drive to the main campuses, with rents that ease the farther out one bases. Time off looks nothing like the clinical day. Nurses routinely hike Pisgah National Forest or wander the studios of the River Arts District to recharge. Because the mountains make Asheville the natural hub for the region, the work tends to stay available across the seasons.

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